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The event is sponsored by the University of Kansas Graduate and Professional Association, The AlumniAssociation, the Graduate School and the Student Senate.
Prior to the reception, an Info Fair will be held in the Kansas Ballroom of the Kansas Union from 5-6pm at which a variety of on-campus organizations, services and offices will host tables and disseminate information. Following the Info Fair, a reception for new and returning graduates and professional students hosted by the Kansas Alumni Association will be held across the street at the Adams Alumni Center from 6-8pm.
The reception will feature cocktails and appetizers as well as guest speakers including the Chancellor of the University, the Dean of the Graduate School, and the Mayor of Lawrence.
For more information, contact a GPA staff member at 864-4914, visit GPA's website :
www.ukans.edu/~gpa or email GPA at:
gpa@raven.cc.ukans.edu
530 Wisconsin 842-9445
Geologist donates $1 million grant to KU, Kansas Geological Survey
By Matt Norton Kansan staff writer
With a $1 million gift to the University of Kansas and the Kansas Geological Survey, researchers may uncover new information about when people first arrived in the Americas.
The gift is from Joseph and Maude Ruth Cramer of Denver, and it will establish an endowment to fund the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund.
The fund will help KU researchers study the geology and archaeology of the midcontinent region of North America with the hope of finding the earliest human contact in the region.
Joseph Cramer said he chose Kansas because of the reputation of the Kansas Geological Survey and because it was a logical place to study the mid-continent region.
Cramer said he had created similar endowments at the University of Arizona, Texas A&M University, the University of Nevada-Reno and Southern Methodist University to study other regions of the continent.
Lee Allison, director of the geological survey, said Rolfe Mandel, project coordinator for geoarchaeological studies at the Kansas Geological Survey, had been appointed as a temporary head of the project for the 2002-2003 school year. Because the grant is an endowment, a percentage of the fund's income that will be used for the project will not be available until next year.
The Cramers donated an additional $30,000 to get the program started this year and the provost matched that amount. Allison said.
Mandel said he would apply for the full-time post this fall.
One proposal would include a geoarchaeological field school that the program would begin advertising to students around the country this fall, Mandel said. The field school would probably rotate between various sites around Kansas, he said.
Allison said the department would be working with the geography, geology and anthropology departments as well as the Natural History Museum and the Kansas Biological Survey.
In addition to combining the talents of researchers in various disciplines on campus, Mandel said there could be an opportunity to reach out to students at other schools as well.
And while people in these departments might be working together for the first time, everyone was looking at the program as an opportunity, not a challenge, Allison said.
Contact Norton at mnorton@kansan.com. This story was edited by Jason Royer.
KU awards more than $1.7 million in tuition grants to offset increase
By Matt Norton Kansan staff writer
Many students are getting help for the rising cost of going to school at the University of Kansas.
The Office of Student Financial Aid announced this week that it had awarded more than $1.7 million in initial tuition grants for the 2002-2003 school year, the first of a program designed to help offset the tuition increase approved by the Board of Regents last month.
Brenda Maigaard, director of student financial aid, said that 3,036 undergraduates had been awarded $1,462,000 and 673 graduate students were awarded $258,000.
Maigaard said there were more qualified applicants for the grants than there were funds available, but additional money could become available as students who don't return to KU or students who receive funds from other sources return the grant funds.
Students would be informed via mail if they became eligible for the returned grants, Maigaard said. Priority will be given to students based on need and when they turned in their 2002 application for financial aid.
Many of the applicants received the full
$500 available for undergraduates or $400 available for graduate students per year, she said.
The office had processed more applications for aid by the priority deadline of March 1 than ever before, Maigaard said. She attributed the rise to the tuition increase that had been debated for nearly a year. But grants were awarded to all qualified undergraduate students whose applications were processed before April 23.
Tuition will increase this fall by $300 per semester for in-state undergraduates enrolled in 15 hours and $438 per semester for nonresident undergraduates enrolled in 15 hours.
Maigard said that more than 70 percent of the grants were awarded to Kansas residents.
Tommy Gunter, Overland Park sophomore, said he hadn't yet received his financial award statement.
He said that while he didn't need the grant to be able to attend KU, it would help alleviate the financial burden he carried by working during the school year.
"Every little bit helps," he said.
Contact Norton at mntoron@kansan.com.
Thisstory was edited by Mike Gilligan.
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